# 22 - The Haunted
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*There were people who loathed one another.*
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*Their corpses withered in the fields,
their souls soaked in blood...*
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*And their bonds were broken by blades...*
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*Collapsed in the darkness,
their sincerity wails...*
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*"My beloved, please die..."*
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"My beloved, please die..."
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*Clouds shroud a night with a waning
moon quivering in the haze*
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*A cruel trap involving
a pair of crucified fledglings*
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*Oh, since smoldering feelings
lie firmly in their hearts...*
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*...destruction!*
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*Gently as the water, severely as a flower*
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*pierce with a trembling blade*
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*Even when I shut the fated
tears deep within my eyes*
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*my eyelids still remember you*
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"Wails of Restless Ghosts"
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"Tokaido Road - Kakegawa Inns"
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Fool.
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C'mon, let me have a turn now!
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Hey!
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W-What in the...
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It's kill or be killed...
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The Kouga... and I... win!
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Die, Oboro!
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"West Oigawa"
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What's this?
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Someone read it.
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Let's see here...
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"Where have you fled to, Kouga Gennosuke?
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Kagero is in my hands.
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I shall take her head
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after a day or two
of our special Iga torture.
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If you are truly the leader
of Kouga Manjidani,
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you will leave your hole and rescue her.
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If you do not have the skill for that,
bring the ninja roster to us.
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Do so, and I will drag both
you and Kagero to Sunpu alive.
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From Iga-no-Oboro."
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What is this?
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I saw the same notice board in Kanaya!
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Talk about creepy...
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Heaven help us!
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"Tokaido Road - Fujieda Inns"
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"Iga"
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Your Kouga leader
certainly is heartless, Kagero...
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I was completely taken in.
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To think your sweet breath
would transform into poison...
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Oboro-*dono*!
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*Tenzen...*
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You're not exactly Oboro-*sama*,
but now I regret this war somewhat.
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I would've liked to take you again,
even if it meant a few days of death.
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Just... kill me...
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Do not be so impatient.
That would be a real waste.
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We needn't rush; by tomorrow morning,
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you will no longer be living.
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*Stop! Please stop, Tenzen!*
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Tenzen!
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You made it here all by yourself?
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You're finally starting
to act like a *shinobi*...
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For heaven's sake, Tenzen!
Please stop this!
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I... I cannot bear it!
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Oboro-*sama*...
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I am struck with great admiration.
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Using this girl as bait
to lure out Kouga Gennosuke...
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That was truly an excellent idea!
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Ofuku-*dono* was deeply impressed, as well.
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"What a true ninja leader...
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...an adorable face,
but a cold-blooded mind."
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At least...
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At least show mercy and let her die now...
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Mercy...
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This is a living hell...
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She may be our foe,
but she is still a person.
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Show *some* pity for her!
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Mercy? Pity?
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Ironically, these are words oft heard
from *shinobi's* mouths these days,
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but I haven't the faintest understanding
of what these words mean...
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T-Tenzen?!
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W-What are you doing?!
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Changing my plans.
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It seems this girl's breath only
becomes poison when she is excited.
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We will let her watch us having intercourse,
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and once she begins to exude poison,
you will use your piercing eyes.
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Tenzen! You're a horrifying man!
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'Tis another shrewd way for me to
enjoy Kagero again without dying.
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Have you no shame?!
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I won't let you! Besides, my eyes are still--
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Oboro-*sama*, how many nights has
it been since we left Tsubagakure?
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The Iga have clearly won the war.
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So let us arrive at Sunpu
tomorrow as husband and wife!
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No! No!
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Stop! Stop, Tenzen!
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Yakushiji Tenzen...
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How are you still alive?
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Why am I alive, you ask?
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Isn't it obvious?!
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To slay *you*, of course!
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Gennosuke-*sama*!
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Isn't this wonderful, Oboro-*sama*?
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Kouga Gennosuke fell right
into the trap that *you* set!
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You look so happy...
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Coming up with cunning
plans together was worth it...
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Now just leave everything to me.
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So Muroga Hyoma taught you...
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But without your *Dojutsu*,
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you're even inferior to
the gutless Tokugawa samurai.
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Too slow!
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Gennosuke-*sama*?!
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How are you feeling, Gennosuke?
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Plead for your life.
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Depending on your attitude,
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I just might be kind enough
to drag you to Sunpu half-alive,
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and then, after our audience
with the retired shogun,
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I might let you stay beside Oboro-*sama
*and me for as long as you live.
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'Tis not a bad offer, but...
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Oboro-*sama*.
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You spoke earlier of a living hell.
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But if there truly is a hell,
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then this void I've lived in for
200 years after being born from death,
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with no hope for salvation
or deliverance whatsoever...
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...*is* that hell!
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Kouga scum!
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Gennosuke-*sama*?!
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This is the end, Gennosuke.
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Tenzen...
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I refuse to hear your last words.
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What do you harbor in your body?
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Their hatred for the Kouga
became a hazy, blind belief,
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and eventually, it began to wane...
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Very few of them had
suffered themselves, you see...
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Damn you...
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Don't tell me you...
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...framed the Kouga?
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During the Tenshou battle,
you plotted something...
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The Iga were on the verge of destruction.
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But it was also a very rare opportunity.
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Had I not capitalized on the Oda raid,
the people of Tsubagakure
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might have become bound by
Kouga Danjo and Ogen-*sama*'s relations.
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Though the first
Hattori Hanzo's anti-war pact
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was a grave miscalculation on my part.
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Grandmother... and Danjo-*sama*...
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Tenzen... You fooled both houses together...
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I fooled no one. I simply made sure
neither side forgot whom to hate.
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Gennosuke-*sama*...
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Iga and Kouga...
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The victor shall be decided here!
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*The mist of sorrow softly touches
these lips blotted with red droplets*
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*The mirror in the sky beautifully
illuminates the distance in the night*
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*Giving more than a passing thought
to the myriad of showering stars*
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*gently, the cords of a deep bond
firmly, firmly bind them*
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*Those beautiful eyes that
sparkle with a lazuline hue...*
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*Even if they wind up closed
by a harbinger from the darkness,*
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*since no one can steal
the bridge of connected dreams*
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*they still reflect the limitless tomorrow*
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"Next Time"
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*The bright light of life
glistens upon overflowing tears.*
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*Blood ties that span the life-death
void are carved into evil eyes.*
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*Sparks fly in the darkness.*
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*Glittering lazuline mercy and pity
finally fell the phoenix.*
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*On the next Basilisk ~ Kouga Ninpouchou:*
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*"Fleeting Visions and Fantasies."*